Couples displaying affection in public should be jailed: BJP MP

Jaipur: In a remark that may stoke another controversy, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj today said couples displaying affection in public should be put behind bars.

“Be it a motorcycle, car or park, couples can be seen behaving in a vulgar fashion. They hug each other as if the girl will eat the boy or the boy will eat the girl,” the Lok Sabha member from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh said.

Maharaj told reporters in Bharatpur in Rajasthan, “It will be appropriate to take action and put such couples behind bars before anything wrong occurs.”

Known for not mincing his words, the BJP leader said everyone ignores them but when rape occurs people demand action by the police.